‘Everything points to she was dumped there’: Lakeview woman’s family wants answers about her death
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“This thing would not have taken this long as it has had she not laid in the New Orleans sun for a week and a half before her body was found,” said Durning’s stepfather Rick Schmitt, of Summerdale, Alabama. “That’s what made the autopsy to difficult… The fact that she was there, everything points to she was dumped there; she did not die there.”
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“However she got in that place, somebody knows and has the person that knows how Jessica died and that’s what needs to be brought to light and what we need to have come forward and put this thing…put it to rest,” Schmitt said.
Durning’s cousin, Stephanie Boswell, asked anyone with tips, “no matter how small,” to contact NOPD.
“We are not going to rest; we're not going to give up on this. We’re not going to wash our hands of this or back down at all until justice is served in this case,” Creel said.